San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-15
EDITORIAL RREvTIEs-

NhltOu, Dul III buOhiuk pclsOhai hOVAAg
most any Texas hroncho can give him
points.
CAEAP JOHN, OF China, Is at a discount,
India has stolen his teR-pot and the
naughty little fire cracker Is taboo in
Uncle Sans diminions. His poppy
flower is about all that remains.
BoULASGER has home for himself In
the hearts OF Frenchmen, from which he
cannot be eyicted by the hOstilities of
Germany or by the jealousy OF the
| French cabinet.
Poor France! Poor because her i'm
beetle ministry deem IL n crime TO allow
her populace TO do honor to patriot
| from whom France has received only
good and not evil.
The Times thinks Grover Is having
| hard time between LIGHT and Ozark
ness" 1t is nothing 10 the hard time he
will have about two years from date
wing {" recover the invisible threads
| Of lost boom.
That smelter has come TO stay cover
| m the other side" aud yet Laredo has
rs much trouble getting her council TO
act In matters OF plaza and park I'M
| provements as San Antonio has.
GROVER is visiting his brother, the
| parson, at Elder Creek. The misfortune
| 10 that preachers have little influence
| with politicians and IL is not likely that
the visit will have much inflsencs upon
| the soldier soorner.
The morning dispatches are double
barreled In their Key West statements.
| One report gives eight cases of fever
| and one death, the other gives twelve
| cases Of fever and no deaths. One OF
these reports. If not both, must have
| como from q blunderbus.
UNCLE SAN has ne use for Hawaii save
| as q Chinese colony. AS such 1t would
| only become a halfway home for Asia
| tios seeking to overrun this continent.
| Uncle Sam has no more Idea OF annexing
Hawaii and exercising guardianship
over 1t than the prohibition party have
| Of carrying San Antonio in the coming
| election.
ALL along the lines of improvement,
San Antonio Ia making progress. There
| Ia no city In the state so directly frOnted
| towards advancement and increase.
The very air is fall Of the signs Of life.
When the movement Is fairly Inaugural
ted business here will hum and popula-
ton and trade increase as by magic.
The .Sabbatarians have captured
Judge Wenslow's oosrt at Laredo. The
Judge rules that in cases for violation of
sunday law, a competent juror is OGe
who is biased In favor OF The law OF re-
preston. An incompetent juror is the
man who has scruples, and probably
takes them.
The Houston Post puts In a plea for
argument In batsiDg with the prohibit
Tionists and frankly avows that eggs are
not available as such arguments. In
this san Antonio anti-prohibitionists
fully concur and three weeks from today
will put In their arguments at the ballot
box.
HoUsroS stands good show of talk
ing up her refrigeration scheme for
years to come. When will San Antonio
materialize that good example, by fol-
lowing which the Bayou City will be
led into the cool and pleasant path of
refrigeration ls not the hour about
riper
The boosted "perice" of Paris must
have lost their grip, when German resi-
dents in the naughty city are ordered to
remain Indoors during celebration lest
they be attacked. This fact shows on
u
which Is suspended over the heads Of
Germany and France. A breath almost
may precipitate war.
ALL the statistics concerning the
forthcoming prohibition vote are mere
guesses in the dark. Anti-prOhibitiUn-
Ists want to understand clear down to
the toes Of their boots that If they would
prevent the adoption OF this amend
ment they must work for 1t by influ-
encing all their friends to vote for 1t
and then vote for IL themselves.
The negative OF tariff hsrmonizatiOn,
Economically considered, has been
amply demonstrated by the congress-
men who have undertaken the com
mon platform" construction. Having
Informed a long-waiting constituency
now it cannot be done, they will Illus
rate their teaching at the next session
OF congress.
The rapid declension in the numbers
Of those who are in good standing In the
K. of l.. organization can be no occasion
of wonder to those who have followed
the course Of that order. Paradise It.
svlf would soon want quorum If there
was as mHch contention there as there
Is in the X. Of l..
kALAKUA is 3 prisoner In his own pal
ace, and hardly knows anything OF the
outside situation. AS there Is no cable
communication with the Islands the cor
| respondents have it all their own way
| sad fancy is made to duty for fact in a
way that discounts the telegram. One
| thing may be accepted. Kalakua does
not want to sign the new constitution
which confers the franchise on all per-
manent residents, and he will not sign
it unless be has to.
WHEN the Y. Nj. G. A. build that gym
| nasium and bathroom, open their read
| ing rooms all day Sunday, the very time
when they are needed by the young men
| Of a city, institute free course Of i'm
proving lectures on literary and scien-
tlfic subjects, and make their association
in some sense supply the social needs OF
the socially destitute, they will begin to
answer somewhat the end OF their crea-
ton.
WHEN Henri harnesses his steeds and
| the star eyed goddess ascends his
chariot he gives lose Tein to his
| imagination, and initiating the son OF
Ph9bus and Clymene bowls down the
| political armament regardless OF she
inevitable smash that will follow
Henri has a Cleveland thong to his
whip just now, and il cracks like the
crack Of doom. Henri seems cracked
too.
The solution Of the Irish question, out
side of parliament, lies in the direction
Of manufacturing. The people of that
island cannot live by agriculture alone
The land has never been able to bear
the large population that would natur-
ally inhabit 1t under favorable political
circumstances. The manufactures of
Ireland, once SO valuable, are largely